Top 10
Accomplice to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer. Red Tower, Aug. 5 ($19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64937-854-5)
The third romantasy in Maehrer’s bestselling Assistant to the Villain series finds heroine Evie Sage more tangled up in her villainous boss turned boyfriend’s machinations than ever.
Alchemised
SenLinYu. Del Rey, Sept. 23 ($35, ISBN 978-0-593-97270-0)
Amnesiac alchemist Helena Marino fought with the losing Resistance in the Kingdom of Paladia’s recent civil war. Now necromancers reign and Helena is their prisoner—but her lost memories may hold the key to a Resistance resurgence.
Among the Burning Flowers
Samantha Shannon. Bloomsbury, Sept. 16 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-601-0)
Bestseller Shannon makes a surprise return to her Roots of Chaos series with this epic dragon fantasy set between the events of A Day of Fallen Night and The Priory of the Orange Tree. 300,000-copy announced first printing.
Girl Dinner
Olivie Blake. Tor, Oct. 21 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-88345-2)
Nina Kaur, the newest pledge to a mysterious sorority, and struggling new mother Dr. Sloane Hartley, the house’s academic adviser, slowly uncover the sinister secret behind the sisters’ beauty and success.
The Isle in the Silver Sea
Tasha Suri. Orbit, Oct. 21 ($30, ISBN 978-0-316-59508-7)
Two women fated to fall into a doomed love in every lifetime struggle to break free of their tragic destiny in this romantic fantasy from World Fantasy Award winner Suri.
King Sorrow
Joe Hill. Morrow, Oct. 21 ($38, ISBN 978-0-06-220060-0)
Horror titan Hill ventures into dark academia with a tale of six college friends who summon a dragon out of a rare book. 200,000-copy announced first printing.
The Macabre
Kosoko Jackson. Harper Voyager, Sept. 9 ($32, ISBN 978-0-06-345086-8)
Aspiring artist Lewis Dixon is tasked by the British Museum with destroying the very rare and very cursed paintings made by his famous great-grandfather in the first horror novel from Lambda Literary Award–winning YA and romance author Jackson.
The Magician of Tiger Castle
Louis Sachar. Ace, Aug. 5 ($30, ISBN 978-0-593-95230-6)
The adult debut from National Book Award–winning children’s author Sachar is a “melancholy, heartfelt, and utterly immersive Renaissance-esque fantasy,” per PW’s starred review. 150,000-copy announced first printing.
Nine Goblins
T. Kingfisher. Tordotcom, Jan. 20 ($24.99, ISBN 978-1-250-40011-6)
Set against the backdrop of a supernatural war, the latest fairy tale–inflected fantasy from bestseller Kingfisher follows a band of goblins who must find their way home from enemy territory. 150,000-copy announced first printing.
You Weren’t Meant to Be Human
Andrew Joseph White. Saga, Sept. 9 ($29, ISBN 978-1-6680-3807-9)
Bestselling YA author White sets his adult debut in a near-future Appalachia, where alien hive minds command devoted human followers. Trans man Crane is happy to serve—until the hive demands he carry a pregnancy to term.
Longlist
Ace
The Dragon Wakes with Thunder by K.X. Song (Aug. 19, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-64155-2). The sequel to The Night Ends with Fire brings Song’s duology retelling the Mulan legend to a close as Meilin faces the consequences of her time as a soldier, and multiple factions vie for the throne. 150,000-copy announced first printing.
Angry Robot
The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson (Sept. 9, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-915998-83-5). In this queer gothic horror story, William Thorn inherits a haunted manor house from his late ex-boyfriend and uncovers a tragic love story from the 1930s.
Baen
The Mills of the Gods by Tim Powers (Dec. 2, $30, ISBN 978-1-6680-7301-8), set in 1925 Paris, follows American illustrator Harry Nolan and scrappy orphan Vivi Chastain, along with fellow expats Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, as they’re sucked into the mystery surrounding a supernatural cult.
Berkley
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas (Aug. 19, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-64107-1). A woman is possessed by a demon in 18th-century Mexico and turns to her fiancé’s cousin, with whom she shares a forbidden attraction, for help. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
Bindery Books
Local Heavens by K.M. Fajardo (Oct. 14, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-964721-55-2). The Great Gatsby gets a cyberpunk makeover in this near-future reimagining set in a world where the über-wealthy cheat death via cybernetic enhancements.
Blackstone
A Ruin, Great and Free by Cadwell Turnbull (Sept. 16, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-0941-7590-4) concludes the bestseller’s Convergence Saga series as the conflict between mortals and monsters comes to a head in humanity’s new settlement on the Moon.
Bloomsbury
The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, trans. by Gene Png (Aug. 12, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-576-1). Detective Su-Yeon’s investigation into a string of elder deaths at a local hospital takes a turn when she meets a monster hunter who believes that a vampire is responsible for the murders.
Bramble
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (Jan. 20, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-250-40681-1). Peasant Wei Yin cons her way into the court of the Azalea Dynasty in a world where poetry is magic, but women are forbidden to read. 350,000-copy announced first printing.
Canary Street
Bonds of Hercules by Jasmine Mas (Oct. 28, $32, ISBN 978-1-335-14698-4). The sequel to the bestselling Blood of Hercules finds gladiator heroine Alexis navigating her tempestuous relationships with the two men she married as she investigates who is killing Olympians. 250,000-copy announced first printing.
DAW
House of Dusk by Deva Fagan (Aug. 26, $29, ISBN 978-0-7564-2010-9). In the wake of a devastating war, a dead god rises and three women—a warrior turned nun, a scrappy spy, and a princess with the gift of prophecy—find themselves on a collision course.
Diversion
Salvagia by Tim Chawaga (Aug. 12, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-89515-038-2). Chawaga’s debut, set in a climate change ravaged near-future, follows salvager Triss Mackey as she discovers the drowned body of a mafioso and sets out to solve his murder.
Doubleday
Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson (Oct. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-385-55111-3) weaves the stories of an estranged father and daughter in Cherokee nation, a NASA scientist in Texas, and a reclusive hacker in an underground bunker into a first-contact sci-fi thriller.
ECW
Veal by MacKenzie Nolan (Oct. 14, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77041-806-6). Recent transplants to small-town Mistaken Point, where young women repeatedly turn up dead, join a crew of monster-hunting locals in Nolan’s queer horror debut.
Erewhon
Humboldt Cut by Allison Mick (Jan. 27, $27, ISBN 978-1-64566-221-1). A depressed Black woman returns to her grandparents’ California logging town for her grandmother’s funeral, where she faces a supernatural threat that has risen among the redwood trees to seek vengeance on the local population for their deforestation.
Feiwel & Friends
What Fury Brings by Tricia Levenseller (Sept. 23, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-250-37937-5). YA author Levenseller’s adult debut, set in a land where women rule over and far outnumber men, centers on a warrior princess who must kidnap a nobleman from a rival kingdom to be her husband.
Flatiron
Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei (Sept. 30, $30.99, ISBN 978-1-250-38096-8). On a flooded near-future Earth, two women set out through perilous waters to rescue their missing scientist sister, who may be humanity’s last hope in the battle against climate change.
Grove
The Unveiling by Quan Barry (Oct. 14, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-6535-0). In this survival horror novel, a Christmas cruise to the Antarctic Ocean ends in disaster for Black film scout Striker when she winds up stranded on the ice with a group of white tourists.
Hanover Square
Dawn of the Firebird by Sarah Mughal Rana (Dec. 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-8766-4). The heir to a fallen empire infiltrates a rival kingdom’s war academy seeking revenge. Instead, she learns startling truths about her own history and embraces the dark power within herself. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Head of Zeus
Daughter of the Otherworld by Shauna Lawless (Nov. 11, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-0359-1129-5). Rival magical clans vie for power in medieval Ireland even as the Normans threaten to invade. It’s up to one nonmagical woman, who has returned to her clan after a mysterious 100-year absence, to turn the tides of war.
Hell’s Hundred
Blood Like Ours by Stuart Neville (Oct. 28, $29.95, ISBN 978-1-64129-722-6). The sequel to Blood Like Mine revisits mother-daughter duo Rebecca and Moonflower Carter, who have been separated. As Moonflower falls in with a pack of wild animals, Rebecca adjusts to her newfound thirst for human blood. 80,000-copy announced first printing.
Keylight
A Dance with Death by Amanda Linsmeier (Jan. 27, $33.99, ISBN 979-8-88798-090-4) riffs on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes as ballerina Corliss Bell seeks a demon’s help to bring her sister back from the dead, kicking off a gothic love story.
Little, Brown
The Sacred Space Between by Kalie Reid (Nov. 4, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-316-59613-8). A saint exiled by the oppressive church that stole his magic falls in love with the devout artist sent by the same church to paint his portrait.
Mira
Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd (Oct. 7, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-8764-0). Hapless magical grad student Dorothe Bartleby, her handsome classmate, and the annoying talking skull that follows her around narrating her inner monologue stumble on a mystery when they realize that disabled students are vanishing from the school.
Mulholland
Petty Lies by Sulmi Bak, trans. by Sarah Lyo (Nov. 11, $27, ISBN 978-0-316-59448-6). In this epistolary horror novel, a tutor infiltrates a wealthy family seeking revenge for the death of her mother only to realize she may have the wrong culprit.
Nightfire
Spread Me by Sarah Gailey (Sept. 23, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-250-38733-2). A scientist at a desert research station discovers a bizarre parasitic specimen that threatens her and her team.
Norton
Chronicles of Ori: An African Epic by Harmonia Rosales (Oct. 14, $39.99, ISBN 978-1-324-11111-5) retells Pan-African myths and folklore about the relationship between mortals and the Orishas, or deities, who made them, accompanied by the author’s original paintings.
Orbit
Crossroads of Ravens by Andrzej Sapkowski, trans. by David French (Sept. 30, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-59773-9). This standalone prequel to Sapkowski’s bestselling Witcher series chronicles the first mission of protagonist Geralt of Rivia when he was a teenager.
Pantheon
A Land So Wide by Erin A. Craig (Sept. 9, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-68680-5). The woods that border the Canadian logging town of Mistaken teem with monsters called Bright Eyeds. When mapmaker Greer’s fiancé disappears into these woods, she risks everything to go after him.
Park Row
The Time Hop Coffee Shop by Phaedra Patrick (Dec. 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-7783-1090-7). The washed-up former star of an idyllic coffee commercial makes a wish that she could be more like the character she played on TV and wakes up trapped in an alternate reality. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
PM Press
Not What I Intended by Nancy Kress (Sept. 9, $16 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88744-120-7) collects speculative stories from Hugo and Nebula Award winner Kress, alongside essays and interviews on science and craft.
Poisoned Pen
How Bad Things Can Get by Darcy Coates (Aug. 26, $17.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-7282-7026-5). A cult survivor heads to a
festival on Prosperity Island. When guests start disappearing, the island’s dark past slowly comes to light. 100,000-copy announced first printing.
Quirk
Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer (Oct. 7, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68369-470-0). After being caught shoplifting, the closeted queer heroine of Kiefer’s sophomore horror novel is attacked and imprisoned by the maniacal employees of an evangelical-owned craft store. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
Random House
Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson (Sept. 9, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-73340-0). In 1970s Portland, Ore., a Vietnam War vet and his troubled niece seek revenge against the vampire that killed his wife, even as the vampire stalks them right back.
Run for It
I’ll Make a Spectacle of You by Beatrice Winifred Iker (Nov. 18, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-316-57524-9). A grad student at an HBCU in Appalachia researches a bizarre cryptid rumored to haunt the local woods. As her classmates start vanishing from campus, the line between fact and folklore blurs.
Saturday Books
Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez (Jan. 13, $31, ISBN 978-1-250-37669-5). In an alternate Renaissance Italy, sculptress Ravenna Maffei reveals her rare and illegal magical talent and is kidnapped by a prominent Florentine family who hope to use her power for their own ends.
Solaris
The Door on the Sea by Caskey Russell (Oct. 7, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-83786-378-5). Indigenous storyteller Elān sets out on a seafaring quest to save his homeland from shape-shifting colonizers by tracking down a powerful weapon with help from a bear,
a wolf, and a raven.
Spiderline
As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, edited by Terese Mason Pierre (Oct. 14, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-4870-1266-3), brings together new fantasy, sci-fi, and genre-bending short fiction from Black Canadian writers tasked with imagining hopeful futures.
Tachyon
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill (Sept. 16, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-61696-444-3). In Cahill’s debut, an acolyte of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven is sent back in time by a trickster god with a mission to save her homeland from a brutal occupation.
Titan
Futility by Nuzo Onoh (Oct. 14, $18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83541-428-6). A Nigerian restaurateur and a British ex-pat
seek supernatural aid in getting revenge against the men who have wronged them in the latest horror outing from Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award winner Onoh.
Tor
Red City by Marie Lu (Oct. 14, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-88567-8). YA author Lu’s adult debut imagines an alternate Los Angeles where rival magical crime syndicates control the flow of an alchemically synthesized drug called sand that the elite use to enhance their looks and abilities.
Word Horde
Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions by John Langan (Aug. 5, $21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-956252-10-1) showcases Hugo and Nebula Award winner Langan’s cosmic horror chops across 13 original stories.
Zando
The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson (Sept. 9, $18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63893-202-4). Mara Fitch wakes in her own grave with no memory of how she got there. After crawling out into the eerie Irish island of Inishbannock, she attempts to piece together the circumstances of her death. 75,000-copy announced first printing.
This article has been updated.
